- Lead
- 4,720
- Total
- 15,286
- vs nation
- D+32.3
Alabama 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,150
- Total
- 18,563
- vs nation
- D+23.3
- Lead
- 6,207
- Total
- 16,923
- vs nation
- D+34.6
- Lead
- 8,059
- Total
- 17,801
- vs nation
- D+41.4
- Lead
- 8,416
- Total
- 18,265
- vs nation
- D+38.8
- Lead
- 6,140
- Total
- 15,365
- vs nation
- D+42.4
- Lead
- 6,759
- Total
- 14,092
- vs nation
- D+47.4
- Lead
- 6,390
- Total
- 12,839
- vs nation
- D+41.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 45,6552024 5-year
- Population density
- 67 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 680 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $36,8582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 36.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 51.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+93.9 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 132, GA · twin score 88.4
presidential history
Party record book
Alabama 82nd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
96.9%
1,719 votes · D+93.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 96.8%
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
43.2%
2,483 votes · D+13.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 40.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
13,266votes
72.6% of the vote · D+46.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 12,842 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
6,558votes
35.3% of the vote · D+27.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 5,168 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+108.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+82.4 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +107.5 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+9.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+13.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · −23.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
District 82 posted a 30.9-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, making it a reliable anchor for the party in a state where such margins are rare outside majority-minority urban constituencies.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 93.9 points in 1940. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.9 points.
A population of 45,655, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $36,858 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 132 and State House District 72.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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